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L. MYERS.

COMB.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15. 1918.

Patented July 8, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

LOUIS MYERS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO CRYSTAL ALLOYS CORPORATION, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

COMB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1919.

Application filed April 15, 1918. Serial No. 228,620.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, LOUIS MYERS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to hair combs and comprises the novel construction as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevation of the comb;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan View thereof;

Fig. 3 is a cross section.

In the usual construction of hair combs.

the teeth are substantially rectangular in cross section and the interdental spaces taper from their outer to their inner ends. As a consequence, there is a tendency for the hair to wedge in between the teeth and this, together with the angular cross section of the teeth, often causes pulling. The object of the present invention is to avoid these objections, which are accomplished: first, by forming the teeth of rounded cross section; second, by arranging the teeth to secure constantly enlarging interdental spaces from the outer to the inner ends of the teeth; and third, by a construction of back or shank which presents an enlarged rounded surface for the hair to be drawn over. 1

In detail, A is the back or shank which is of a thickness in excess of the diameter of the teeth and is formed with a rounded surface B adjacent to the teeth. C are the teeth which are preferably circular in cross section throughout their lengths and are embedded in the back A or otherwise securely attached thereto. The inner ends I) of these teeth are alternately arranged upon opposite sides of the center of the rounded surface B and the teeth are alternately inclined so that their outer ends E lie in substantial alinement with each other longitudinally of the back, these outer ends being rounded. The back or shank A is preferably provided with the handle portion F at one end thereof.

With a comb constructed as above described when the teeth are inserted in the hair, the quantity of hair admitted to each interdental space is limited by the space .between the outer ends E of the teeth and this hair will pass into the gradually enlarging inter-dental space so that greater clearance is provided for the movement of'the hair therethrough. Because of the rounded cross section of the teeth and of the back or shank, the hair will be drawn over a rounded surface thereby decreasing the tendency to pull or break the same. Furthermore, the rounded outer ends of the teeth permit of the ready insertion of the comb in the hair and at the same time will not harm' LOUIS MYERS. 

